Quotes About Interdependence

The fact is, we need help, and we need each other.

Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.

It's because we help out when they're in trouble that we can count on them to come running when we need it.-Shikamaru Nara

The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.

In the great non zero sum games of history, if you're part of the problem, then you'll likely be a victim of the solution.

In America we have a Declaration of Independence, but our history, our advancements, our global strength all point to an American declaration of interdependence.

A house should not be built so close to another that a chicken from one can lay an egg in the neighbor's yard, nor so far away that a child cannot shout to the yard of his neighbor.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

Humanity finds itself in the midst of the world. In the midst of all other creatures humanity is the most significant and yet the most dependent upon the others.

None of us is alone in this world; each of us is a vital piece of the great mosaic of humanity as a whole.

Physically you are identical with and inseparable from the cosmic material substance, and socially you are inseparable from the large mass of humanity.

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

Mankind is interdependent, and the happiness of each depends upon the happiness of all, and it is this lesson that humanity has to learn today as the first and the last lesson.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.

Just remember, we're all in this alone.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Love is generally confused with dependence; but in point of fact, you can love only in proportion to your capacity for independence.

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.